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MAP: Impact of Storm Surge During Cyclone 'Sidr' (town of Jhalakathi)
26 Nov 2007
Source: RESPOND
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Bangladesh – Jhalakathi – Impact of Storm Surge During Cyclone 'Sidr', 1:10,000
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Bangladesh – Jhalakathi – Impact of Storm Surge During Cyclone 'Sidr', 1:10,000
DLR (RESPOND)
The map shows the possible extent of the storm surge at the town of Jhalakathi. Moist areas have been extracted from SPOT4 data from Nov 19, 2007. The backdrop is a VHR IKONOS image.

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The map was created at DLR within the GMES service element RESPOND. It was requested through the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters', triggered by UNOSAT on behalf of World Food Programme (WFP).

In addition, DLR have posted the results of visual interpretation of very high resolution satellite data (IKONOS), aquired on Nov 20, 2007, covering parts of the disctricts Barisal, Jhalakathi, Paluakathi, Barguna, Pirjopur and Bagerhat.

View the PDF version of the IKONOS infrastructure assessement

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